Portrait Professional lets you airbrush away imperfections
Anthropics Technology has recently release Version 8 of the software, which now supports Intel Macs as well as PCs. The software is relatively easy to use for basic touch-ups. You simply click five points on the face (with guided instructions) and let the software do the rest of the work.
The software works best with straight on photos of someones face. Side views are more difficult to work with and more likely to come out looking a bit off. There are special settings such as glamour, drama, face slimming and improve complexion which you can use with one click. The only thing that appeared to happen with the glamour setting was a rather awkward elongating of the neck on the photos we tried though.
It was fun to play with and change eye colors, lighten hair and turn photos to sepia tones. If you photo subject has a tendency to squint when smiling their eyes may come out looking rather like an alien but, for straight on, wide open eyed photos, the little touch-ups did improve the look.
The only complaint is that, once altered, the photos seem a little more flat. Maybe it was just the photos we used but the people looked a little more Stepford-ish in a way. They all had really good skin though!
[Thanks Christina for the photo]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Aron T said 5:50PM on 7-23-2008
As if that photo needs any re-touching...
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Quikboy said 11:25PM on 7-23-2008
What was wrong with the first photo?
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Stuart Halliday said 10:41AM on 7-24-2008
You're very hard on your models if you need to get them tattooed. Shame on you guys...
;-)
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Christina Clark said 10:44AM on 7-24-2008
Just having a little fun. And for those of you that have asked what was wrong with the first picture... nothing was "wrong" but it still had things that could be tweaked. For example, I made her eyes match her DLS tattoo!
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Mr Wild said 11:35AM on 7-24-2008
That girl in the photo looks insane.
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sdfsdfsdf said 3:31PM on 7-24-2008
The guy on the right - is that Michael Jackson?
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iceman7 said 5:02AM on 7-25-2008
"Why so serious?"
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tarn said 3:16AM on 7-26-2008
ew
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Pablo DiCiacco said 2:47PM on 7-26-2008
I like her chest tattoo, but she went from looking plastic to looking like a was figure! Oye!
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ronmoses said 11:08AM on 7-28-2008
Wow, the after picture is really awful. Frightening, actually. Thanks for the "avoid" warning.
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stephanie said 9:56AM on 7-30-2008
love this download
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sdfgh said 11:40PM on 7-31-2008
this portrait thing makes the people look funny. and the first picture looked fine, although the tattoo adds a nice touch.
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